Snake Oil & Other Services Companies' Futures

[Klause]

I would say bgmb hit the nail on the head.... prescription based seeding works if you know your land and are the one doing the prescriptions. I'd you hire someone like agri trend they look at a yield map and go off of that feed it into a computer program and generate a fert map.


Having said that our air drill is setup with rawson drives and a trimble FmX for variable rate.



Getting back on topic...

What will you cut first to save money? Snake oil type inputs? "Services" like agritrend/farmlink/etc?

[Hopperbin]

Dont have any snakeoil dealings so pretty hard to cut those.

[ado089]

Most cases you've already lost if youre using a yield map or satellite for VR. The here keys to Vr are water, water and water.

Back to the op...I cut out the expensive $75/ac canola in lieu of the cheapest ($35) stuff I could find. so far the cheap CL and RR are yielding the best. Only fungicide what needs it (disease triangle) and spoon fed fert as needed. My canola COP was down close to $50/ac this year and I'm not goving up anything compared to the neighbors yield wise.

[blackpowder]

Rob Saik is clever, forward thinking business man with a business model and great marketing skills.
I don't call it Agrispend for nothing. I've always been too small for that type of sales pitch. Take it for what it is. As with 90% of the prophylactics.
The future is dim except for the salesman for there will always be another product.
Agrispend however, is getting bigger every year.

[sumdumguy]

We are going to grow more Canaryseed next year. So cheap to grow and yielding 40 ish around here times $13.00 a bushel spells profit.

[mcdon]

Agritrend is little more than a money grab, especially marketing. They are just salesmen selling a product of which they know a little more than the average farmer.Saik made a lot of money on the way up, not sure he can hold things together during tough times.

[farmaholic]

I think you're right, I knew a guy from Agrispend who probably didn't know any more than the farmers he was "advising". I think he relyed on the upper levels of Reps for advice...

Tighten your belts and sinch the purse strings a little tighter...